Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
Le matelot volant
Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby
Canada (Quebec), Animation
A sailor takes a sudden and unexpected voyage.
Film
29e
Les Bottes de la Nuit
Pierre-Luc Granjon
France, Animation
While his parents are entertaining friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night
into the undergrowth, rubber boots on his feet. There, a little creature, curious and solitary,
takes him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal inhabitants that live there.
Film
29e
Les petits monstres
Pablo Leridon
France, Fiction
Today, visually impaired teenager Erwan can't wait to get to school to declare his love for Agathe. Unfortunately, he first has to share a medical transport van with David, a wheelchair-bound suck-up, who tries everyday to make friends with Erwan, quite unsuccesfully. When David tries to make sure they never arrive, war is declared.
Film
29e
Liberté Egalité Sagacité
Jessamine Fok
Canada (Ontario), Argentina, Experimentation
SAHARA is a story of African diaspora, reconnection, and finding power within your own origin story.

In a dystopian land that is barren and dry, people live and work for the resource that powers our technological progress - cobalt. The film represents what our world might look like if we continue progress for the sake of progress. As we move through the film, dialogue and imagery touch on themes of creation, origin stories, and how we can turn back to our cultural roots to find power within ourselves, rather than from new materialistic ideals. We end on images of the people, united together, dancing together around a fire, riding away from the arid wasteland, showing strength by uniting with their inner power and knowledge that already exist within their cultural roots.
Film
29e
Los Carpinchos
Soderguit Alfredo
Chile, France, Uruguay, Animation
Special mention of the Best Yought short film Award.

Hunting season has begun. A family of capybaras seek refuge in a chicken coop, but the hens don't trust them. The curiosity of the youngest members of the families will create a union with unexpected consequences.…
Film
29e
Ma soeur
Rosalie Pelletier
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Shoot No Matter What Award winning film offerd by École supérieure en Art et technologie des médias, PRIM and Spira

My Sister addresses the underlying tensions between two sisters. After their recent reunion, the narrator documents her adoptive sister's 18th birthday through various stops on the road. We slowly discover their private hang-ups and divergent paths to adulthood.
Film
29e
Mes murs-mémoire
Axel Robin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Rose G. Lévesque, an almost nonagenarian painter and poet, painted the story of her life on her house's walls to transform it into a museum.
Film
29e
Mini-Mini-Pokke no Okina Niwa de
Yoko Yuki
Japan, Animation
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.
Film
29e
Mojappi - C'est à moi ! -
Nijitaro
Japan, Animation
Mojappi, a trio of naughty kids who live in the forest, just love being naughty. One day, they found out their friends baking pancakes! They will do anything to get those pancakes!
Film
29e
Muses
Simon Vermeulen
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Special Mention Short & Queer Award

In the midst of their deteriorating intimate relationship, a dancer wishes to break free from his unfaithful choreographer.

This personal silent film delves into the intricate dynamics of inspiration, domination, and dependence within the LGBTQ+ dance world.